Howdy peoples. I wanted to share some WTF's with you. I'll start small and make my way to the biggest WTF to affect me personally.

******Begining*Rants******

WTF?! Part One

The Dualshock 3 is a superior controller compared to the lightweight non vibrating Six Axis. Some may not care for the vibration, but IMHO it's worth the $55 I paid for it.
I'm spoiled I've been playing so many games on Wii and 360 I need the force feedback.
It helps to be able to "feel" when I'm being shot at. Explosions are a plus. At first I thought it wasn't powerful enough. In MGS4 the vibration is really subtle. Until something big blows up by you. Boy it felt great to feel that!

So the controllers cool and the joystick doesn't stick like w/ the 360 controller.

Why the "WTF?!"?

Simple the $50-%55 controller doesn't include a USB cable. I use recharchable batteries in Wii and 360 and don't require extra hords to charge batteries.
The Dualshock 3 has an internal battery pack. Why not include an el cheapo USB cable?

I know the controller cost significantly less than $50 in materials.

Final Verdict for WTF?! Part One:

A must buy for those that require some kind of controller feedback to help immerse them in the experience.

Meh to those that could care less about force feedback.

WTF?! Part Two

Being the FF and FFT nerd I am I had to pick up FFT A-2. I have to say the game is pretty much what I expected. Even the begining battles are longer than the original. The race specific jobs are great. The lack of a map rotation is a pain, but that's where the grid comes in handy

My WTF for this game is how Square forces you to collect Loot. The Loot in turn is sent to the Bazaar in exchange for weapons. I like the idea and collection aspects. Where's the "WTF?!" you ask? In that the equipment you obtain is then available in the shop. You don't actually get the equip. Just the ability to purchase it. Furthermore the equip is how you learn abilities. You Master an ability but will lack equipment to learn new abilities for awhile.

The game pretty much forces you to job change often to continually develop abilities. At least early on.

Final Verdict on WTF?! Part Two:

Personally I love the game. I'll be playing this bad boy at work for awhile. Lots of down time means most portable games are beat fairly quickly. Wifi support of character trading would have kicked ass. Even w/out the game has enough collecting and developing to keep me busy for a good long time. Or at least till the IV remake is released

If you never got into the series or don't have patience you may want to pass on this. The depth is overwelming, but the pace is slow. FFT fans should at least check it out. FF fans won't be converted w/ this game. Though the graphics are cartoonish and the rating isn't Teen, the game is suprisingly more complicated than the original FFT.

Uber Massive WTF?!

AKA WTF?! Part Three

As I'm sure most of you are well aware of the upcoming MKvDC. I've been palying MK since it's birth. I watched it grow up and develop. I put up with rehashes. I put up with a pathetic excuse for their supposed spectacular last gen conclusion(The online Multiplayer was the best part.)

To clear up some stuff I'll offer details on some of the issues with this game.

To start off Fatalitys will be included for MK characters and DC badguys. This is confirmed. A teen rating has also been confirmed. Take the fatal out of the word and replace it with Teen. That's right Teenality. WTF?! This isn't the MK I grew up on.

The blood, gore and general over the top violence have always been part of the MK formula. That formula has been drasticly altered. The problem is the inclusion of DC characters effectively sissified the game. My oppinion is that Midway is just desperate to see sales and came up w/ a horrible idea. Tt's all about the money these days. Investors want assurance. Brawl did well and obviously influenced Boon.

I've been playing MGO and I have to say it's grown on me. I love knocking people out w/ the tranq and killing them as they lay there defenseless. One might think it's wrong, but it's a kill or be killed atmosphere. It doesn't help that my mic sucks and I have to get a new shiny Blu tooth headset on payday. Communications aren't going on in most games I played. That's a bad thing IMO.

Still the variety of play styles is present while online. I like to wait for spawn campers. They always come and being predictable isn't good in MGO. There's a variety of places to hide. High ground is present for snipers. Alleys and compact areas make carrying a shotgun a viable option.

I really need some help on CQC. I suck so bad at it. Hence my shotgun usage I'm not even sure how to add people in the game either. Oh well.

If anyone wants to play MGO or be as kind as to give me some CQC instructions it would be greatly appreciated. I'm not sure if we add people by Game ID or Konami ID, but whichever leave it here and I'll add you.

Too bad we can't just play w/ people from our PSN friends list. Then it'd be too easy to get a match going

I've been waiting for this bad boy all day. It's safe to say the wait was worth it. It's like a frickin Encarta of the MG universe. I was amazed at how much info there was. Even the original NES games are well documented and accounted for.

It's Kojima's idea of a demo I suppose. It installs like a demo and even has the MGS4 ad! Still it's so much more than that. It has so much info it's almost mind boggling. I always said Smash Bros was an excelent example of fan service. This isn't in the same wein but it's very much a fan service. They could have printed a FAT encyclopedia (probably multiple volumes too) and sold it to eager fans and made mondo monetary gains aka moolah.

Nope they give it out for free. Anyone with a PS3 can download it. best of all it reads your game saves or entirely blocks out the MGS4 info. That's effing genius. not only is it chock full of info but it's spoiler free. How can you beat that?!

Anyway I'm done raving. If you're a MGS fan check out the MGS Database! For those curious about where to download it, visit the PS store and go to the New Downloads section. You won't regret it

WOW. That's all I can say without spewing spoilers. I finished on the 2nd hardest diffuclty and earned a few animal medals. My rating was Eagle. Not sure if that's good or not. If anyone else has beat it let me know what animal you got. With any MGS game it's fun to go back through and unlock hidden goodies and whatnot. So I'll be playing through again. This time I might even use that camera. Oh yeah and I have to do it on Big Boss difficulty

Unless there's goodies that will require me to play on a lower difficulty. I've already beat all the BNB with tranq darts so this time I'm gonna kill em w/ normal guns and see if I get anything different. I used a custom M4 and M2(tranq) almost exclusively through the game.

Oh and I thought they took six axis support out of the game? There's one instance where you use it. But that's more than enough. I don't want to spoil it for anyone.

Ok so I'm finally able to sign in. I created my character and browsed through the clan listings. Some people have come up with some pretty creative names, that's always fun. I noticed the game says you can have 32 friends and 64 people in a clan. as much as I like MG I have to say Kojima has made some mind baffling decision.
32 friends 64 clan members, WTF pt 4? Paying for characters, WTF pt 5? Character customization, haha yeah right. The only gear that looked good was the default stuff in black IMHO. With a few exceptions. Gotta love the ski mask w/ oarange shades.
I have a screaming fast ISP and hope my games will be somewhat lag free. Since I complained about my troubles so much I thought it was only fair to annoounce my succesful sign on.
Damn it's sad when you get this happy just to sign in. Oh well. I'm off to test the waters. I'll be throwing my initial impressions on in a few. The 20 gameplay hours to make a clan requirement gives me hope that the online won't suck royal ass. There are alot of clans already and 20 hours is no small gaming investment.